killing Quotes

“Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“It's not through obedience that men go out of their way to get killed—nor through obedience that they kill. … Except cowards.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

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“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Liberty . . . is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is...”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“you mustn't believe in killing . . . You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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“One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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